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{{Short description|Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| type         = monarch
| name         = Leopold II
| image        = Leopold_II_of_Tuscany.jpg
| caption      = Grand Duke Leopold in the uniform of an Austrian field marshal, 1828, by [[Pietro Benvenuti]]
| reign        = 18 June 1824 – 21 July 1859
| succession   = [[Grand Duke of Tuscany]]
| predecessor  = [[Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Ferdinand III]]
| successor    = [[Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Ferdinand IV]]
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Maria Anna of Saxony (1799-1832)|Princess Maria Anna of Saxony]]|1817|1832|end=d.}}<br />{{marriage|[[Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies]]|1833}}
| issue        = {{Plainlist}}
* Archduchess Caroline
* [[Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria|Auguste Ferdinande, Princess of Bavaria]]
* Archduchess Maria Maximiliana
* [[Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria|Maria Isabella, Countess of Trapani]]
* [[Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany]]
* Archduchess Maria Theresa
* Archduchess Maria Christina
* [[Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria|Archduke Karl Salvator]]
* Archduchess Maria Anna
* Archduke Rainer
* [[Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany|Maria Luisa, Princess of Isenburg and Büdingen]]
* [[Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria|Archduke Ludwig Salvator, Count of Neuendorf]]
* [[Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria|Archduke Johann Salvator]]
{{Endplainlist}}
| issue-link   = Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany#Marriages and children
| full name    = Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Francesco Ferdinando Carlo
| house        = [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg-Lorraine]] (initially)<br>Habsburg-Tuscany (founded)
| father       = [[Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany]]
| mother       = [[Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily]]
| birth_date   = 3 October 1797
| birth_place  = [[Florence]], [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany|Tuscany]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|df=yes|1870|1|29|1797|11|3}}
| death_place  = Rome, [[Papal States]]
| date of christening = 
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| religion     = [[Roman Catholicism]]
| signature    = Signature of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany.svg
}}

'''Leopold II'''<ref group="nb">{{langx|it|Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Francesco Ferdinando Carlo}}, English: ''Leopold John Joseph Francis Ferdinand Charles''.</ref> (3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870) was [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany|Grand Duke of Tuscany]] from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; firstly [[Princess Maria Anna of Saxony (1799–1832)|Maria Anna of Saxony]], and after her death in 1832 [[Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies|Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies]]. By the latter, he had a son, [[Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Ferdinand]], who later succeeded him. Leopold was recognised contemporarily as a liberal monarch, authorising the [[Tuscan Constitution]] of 1848, and allowing a degree of press freedom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leopold II {{!}} House of Lorraine, Grand Duke, Florence {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-II-grand-duke-of-Tuscany |access-date=2025-09-13 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

The Grand Duke was deposed briefly by [[Tuscan Republic (19th Century)|a provisional government]] in 1849, only to be restored the same year with the assistance of [[Imperial Austrian Army (1806–1867)|Austrian troops]], who occupied the state until 1855. Leopold attempted a policy of neutrality with regard to the [[Second Italian War of Independence]] but was expelled by a bloodless coup on 27 April 1859, just before the beginning of the war. The Grand Ducal family left for Bologna, [[Bologna#Modern history|papal territory since the Congress of Vienna]]. Tuscany was occupied by soldiers of [[Victor Emmanuel II]] of Sardinia for the duration of the conflict. The [[Armistice of Villafranca]], agreed to between [[Napoleon III]] of France and [[Franz Joseph I of Austria]] on 11 July, provided for the return of the Lorraines to [[Florence]], but Leopold himself was considered too unpopular to be accepted, and on 21 July 1859, he abdicated the throne in favour of his son, Ferdinand. Ferdinand was not, however, any more acceptable to the revolutionaries in control of [[Florence]], and his accession was not proclaimed. Instead, the provisional government proclaimed the deposition of the [[House of Habsburg]] (16 August).

==Biography==

=== Early life and Reign ===
Born in Florence, Leopold II was the son of [[Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] and Princess [[Luisa of the Two Sicilies|Luisa Maria Amelia Teresa of the Two Sicilies]], who were double first cousins. His maternal grandparents were [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies]] and [[Maria Carolina of Austria]]. He accompanied his father while fleeing to Germany when Tuscany was [[Kingdom of Etruria|occupied by the French]]. He and his family returned to Florence after [[Napoleon]]'s defeat in 1814.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-09-15 |title=Leopold II of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany |url=https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/biography/LeopoldIILorraineGrandDukeTuscany.html |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=brunelleschi.imss.fi.it |language=EN}}</ref>

He succeeded his father on 18 June 1824. During the first twenty years of his reign he devoted himself to the internal development of the state. His was the mildest and least reactionary of all the Italian despotisms of the day, and although always subject to [[Austrian Empire|Austrian]] influence he refused to adopt the Austrian methods of government, allowed a fair measure of liberty to the press, and permitted many political exiles from other states to dwell in Tuscany undisturbed.{{sfn|Villari|1911|p=461}}

But when during the early 1840s unrest spread throughout Italy, even in Tuscany demands for a constitution and other political reforms were advanced; in 1845 and 1846, riots occurred in various parts of the country, and Leopold granted a number of administrative reforms. But Austrian influence prevented him from doing more, even had he wished to do so. The election of [[Pope Pius IX]] gave fresh encouragement to Liberalism, and on 4 September 1847 Leopold instituted the National Guard&nbsp;– a preparation for a constitution; soon afterward the marchese Cosimo Ridolfi (1794–1865) was appointed prime minister. The granting of the Neapolitan and Piedmontese constitutions was followed (17 February 1848) by that of Tuscany, composed by [[Gino Capponi]].{{sfn|Villari|1911|p=461}}
[[File:Ritratto di Leopoldo II di Toscana.jpg|thumb|262px|Portrait of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, painted by [[Giuseppe Bezzuoli]], circa 1825, [[National Museum of the Royal Palace]]|left]]

==== Italian Wars of Independence ====
The uprisings [[Five Days of Milan|in Milan]] and [[Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas|in Vienna]] aroused patriotic enthusiasm in Tuscany, where war against Austria was demanded; Leopold, yielding to popular pressure, sent a force of regulars and volunteers to co-operate with [[Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)|Piedmont]] in the [[First Italian War of Independence|Lombard campaign]]. His speech on their departure was uncompromisingly Italian and Liberal. "Soldiers," he said, "the holy cause of Italian freedom is being decided to-day on the fields of Lombardy. Already the citizens of Milan have purchased their liberty with their blood and with a heroism of which history offers few examples... Honour to the arms of Italy! Long live Italian independence!" The Tuscan contingent fought bravely, though unsuccessfully, at Curtatone and Montanara.{{sfn|Villari|1911|p=461}}

On 26 June, the first Tuscan parliament assembled but the disturbances consequent on the failure of the campaign in Lombardy resulted in the resignation of the Ridolfi ministry, which was succeeded by that of Gino Capponi. The riots continued, especially at [[Livorno]], which was prey to actual civil war, and the democratic party of which [[Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi]] and [[Giuseppe Montanelli]] were organizers became every day more influential. Capponi resigned, and Leopold agreed reluctantly to a Montanelli-Guerrazzi ministry, which in its turn had to fight against the extreme republican party.{{sfn|Villari|1911|pp=461–462}}

New elections in the autumn of 1848 returned a constitutional majority, but it ended by voting in favour of a constituent assembly. There was talk of instituting a central Italian kingdom with Leopold as king, to form part of a larger Italian federation, but in the meanwhile the grand-duke, alarmed at the revolutionary and republican agitations in Tuscany and encouraged by the success of the Austrian troops, was, according to Montanelli, negotiating with Field Marshal [[Joseph Radetzky von Radetz|Radetzky]] and with Pius IX, who had now abandoned his liberal tendencies, and fled to [[Gaeta]]. Leopold had left Florence for [[Siena]], and eventually for [[Porto Santo Stefano]], leaving a letter to Guerrazzi in which, on account of a protest from the pope, he declared that he could not agree to the proposed constituent assembly. The utmost confusion prevailed in Florence and other parts of Tuscany.{{sfn|Villari|1911|p=462}}

On 18 February 1849 a [[Tuscan Republic (19th Century)|republic]] was proclaimed and on that same day Leopold sailed for Gaeta. A third parliament was elected and Guerrazzi appointed dictator. But there was great discontent, and the defeat of [[Charles Albert of Sardinia|Charles Albert]] at [[Battle of Novara (1849)|Novara]] caused consternation among the Liberals. The majority, while fearing an Austrian invasion, desired the return of the grand duke who had never been unpopular, and in April 1849 the municipal council usurped the powers of the assembly and invited him to return, "to save us by means of the restoration of the constitutional monarchy surrounded by popular institutions, from the shame and ruin of a foreign invasion." Leopold accepted, although he said nothing about the foreign invasion, and on 1 May sent Count Luigi Serristori to Tuscany with full powers.{{sfn|Villari|1911|p=462}}
[[File:Leopold II of Tuscany 1862.jpg|thumb|348x348px|Photograph of an elderly Leopold II in 1862]]

=== Abdication and Later life ===
But at the same time the Austrians occupied [[Lucca]] and Livorno, and although Leopold simulated surprise at their action it has since been proved, as the Austrian general d'Aspre declared at the time, that Austrian intervention was due to the request of the grand duke. On 24 May the latter appointed G Baldasseroni prime minister, on the 25th the Austrians entered Florence and on 28 July Leopold himself returned. In April 1850 he concluded a treaty with Austria suspending the continuation for an indefinite period of the Austrian occupation with 10,000 men; in September he dismissed parliament, and the next year established a concordat with the Church of a very clerical character. He feebly asked Austria if he might maintain the constitution, and the Austrian premier, [[Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg]], advised him to consult the pope, the king of Naples and the dukes of Parma and Modena.{{sfn|Villari|1911|p=462}}

On their advice he formally revoked the constitution (1852). Political trials were held, Guerrazzi and many others being condemned to long terms of imprisonment, and although in 1855 the Austrian troops left Tuscany, Leopold's popularity was gone. Some of the Liberals, however, still believed in the possibility of a constitutional grand duke who could be induced for a second time to join Piedmont in a war against Austria, whereas the popular party headed by [[Ferdinando Bartolommei]] and Giuseppe Dolfi realised that only by the expulsion of Leopold could the national aspirations be realised. When in 1859 France and Piedmont [[Italian Second War of Independence|made war]] on Austria, Leopold's government failed to prevent numbers of young Tuscan volunteers from joining the Franco-Piedmontese forces. Finally an agreement was arrived at between the aristocratic constitutionalists and the popular party, as a result of which the grand-duke's participation in the war was formally demanded.{{sfn|Villari|1911|p=462}}

Leopold at first gave way, and entrusted Don Neri Corsini with the formation of a ministry. The popular demands presented by Corsini were for the abdication of Leopold in favour of his son, an alliance with Piedmont and the reorganisation of Tuscany in accordance with the eventual and definite reorganisation of Italy. Leopold hesitated and finally rejected the proposals as derogatory to his dignity. On 27 April there was great excitement in Florence, Italian colours appeared everywhere, but order was maintained, and the grand duke and his family departed for Bologna undisturbed. Thus the revolution was accomplished without blood being shed, and after a period of [[Provisional Government of Tuscany|provisional government]] Tuscany was incorporated in the [[Kingdom of Italy]]. On 21 July Leopold abdicated in favour of his son [[Ferdinand IV of Tuscany]], who never reigned, but issued a protest from [[Dresden]] (26 March 1860).{{sfn|Villari|1911|p=462}}

Since his abdication, he then lived in exile in Austria for many years and was elected mayor of Schlackenwerth [[Ostrov (Karlovy Vary District)|(Ostrov)]]. He died in Rome in 29 January 1870, having stayed there since 1869.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-09-15 |title=Leopold II of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany |url=https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/biography/LeopoldIILorraineGrandDukeTuscany.html |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=brunelleschi.imss.fi.it |language=EN}}</ref> This was only a few months before Italy could [[Capture of Rome|capture the city.]]

==Evaluation==
{{More citations needed section|date=February 2021}}
Leopold of Tuscany was a well-meaning, not unkindly man, and fonder of his subjects than were the other Italian despots, but he was weak, and too closely bound by family ties and [[Habsburg]] traditions ever to become a real Liberal.{{According to whom|date=February 2021}} Had he not joined the conclave of autocrats at Gaeta, and, above all, had he not summoned Austrian assistance while denying that he had done so, in 1849, he might yet have preserved his throne, and even changed the course of Italian history. At the same time his rule, if not harsh, was demoralising.{{sfn|Villari|1911|p=462}}

Along with his wife he was the founding patron of the [[Istituto Statale della Ss. Annunziata]], the first female boarding school in Florence, that would educate [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocratic]] and [[Nobility|noble]] young ladies. Leopold ordered the construction of La Botte, a water tunnel under the [[Arno]] river, which allowed for the final drainage of the [[Lago di Bientina]], which had previously been the largest lake in Tuscany. Completed in 1859, La Botte remains an integral part of the Tuscan water management system.

==Marriages and children==

[[File:Gaspero Martellini - Marianna Carolina di Sassonia - 1821.jpg|thumb|Maria Anna of Saxony]]
In [[Dresden]] on 28 October 1817, and by proxy in [[Florence]] on 16 November, Leopold married Princess [[Maria Anna of Saxony (1799-1832)|Maria Anna of Saxony]]. She was the daughter of [[Maximilian, Prince of Saxony]] and [[Princess Caroline of Parma|Caroline of Bourbon-Parma]]. Her maternal grandparents were [[Ferdinand, Duke of Parma]] and [[Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma|Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria]]. Leopold and his wife were second cousins as they were both great-grandchildren of Empress [[Maria Theresa]] of Austria. They had three daughters:

*Archduchess Carolina Auguste Elisabeth Vincentia Johanna Josepha ([[Florence]], 19 November 1822 – [[Florence]], 5 October 1841)
*[[Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria]] (1 April 1825 – 26 April 1864); married [[Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria]].
*Archduchess Maria Maximiliana Thekla Johanna Josepha ([[Florence]], 9 January 1827 – [[Florence]], 18 May 1834)

[[File:Bezzuoli, Giuseppe - Ritratto di Maria Antonietta di Borbone, granduchessa di Toscana, 1836 (Firenze, Galleria d'arte moderna).jpg|thumb|Maria Antonietta of Two Sicilies]]
Maria Anna died in [[Pisa]] on 24 April 1832. On 7 June 1833, in [[Naples]], Leopold married secondly [[Marie Antoinette of Tuscany|Maria Antonietta]] of the [[Two Sicilies]]. His new wife was the second daughter of [[Francis I of the Two Sicilies]] and [[Maria Isabella of Spain]]. Marie Antoinette was his first cousin. They had ten children:

*[[Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria|Archduchess Maria Isabella Annunziata Giovanna Giuseppa Umilta Appolonia Philomena Virginia Gabriela]] (21 May 1834 – 14 July 1901); married her maternal uncle [[Prince Francis, Count of Trapani]], youngest son of [[Francis I of the Two Sicilies]] and [[Maria Isabella of Spain]].
*[[Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (10 June 1835 – 17 January 1908)
*Archduchess Maria Theresia Annunziata Johanna Josepha Paulina Luisa Virginia Apollonia Philomena ([[Florence]], 29 June 1836 – [[Florence]], 5 August 1838)
*Archduchess Maria Christina Annunziata Agatha Dorothea Johanna Josephina Luisa Philomena Anna ([[Florence]], 5 February 1838 – [[Florence]], 1 September 1849)
*[[Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria|Archduke Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Märzius Ludwig]] (30 April 1839 – 18 January 1892); married [[Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1844–1899)|Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies]], second daughter of [[Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies]] and [[Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1816-1867)|Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria]].
*Archduchess Maria Anna Karoline Annunziata Johanna Josepha Gabriela Theresia Katharina Margarethe Philomena ([[Florence]], 9 June 1840 – [[Florence]], 13 August 1841)
*Archduke Rainer Salvator Maria Stephan Joseph Johann Philipp Jakob Antonin Zenobius Alois von Gonzaga ([[Florence]], 1 May 1842 – [[Florence]], 14 August 1844)
*[[Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany|Archduchess Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Philomena Apollonia Tommasa]] ([[Florence]], 31 October 1845 – 27 August 1917); married in Schloss Brandeis, [[Bohemia]], on 31 May 1865 to  [[Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen|Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein]]. Her husband was the grandson of Karl, last sovereign Prince of [[Isenburg-Birstein|Isenburg]]. They are the ancestors of [[Sophie, Princess of Prussia]], wife of [[Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia]], the head of the [[House of Hohenzollern]].
*[[Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria|Archduke Ludwig Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Dominicus Rainerius Ferdinand Carl Zenobius Antonin]] (4 August 1847 – 12 October 1915)
*[[Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria|Archduke Johann Salvator Nepomuk Maria Annunziata Giuseppe Johann Batista Ferdinando Baldassare Luigi Gonzaga Pietro Alessandrino Zenobius Antonin]] (25 November 1852 – reported lost at sea in 1890); speculation of his survival under an alias (Johann Orth).

== Honours ==
* {{flagicon|Tuscany|habsburg}}: [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany]]:<ref name = "HofUndStaat">''[http://alex.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/alex?aid=shb&datum=1859&page=12&size=45 Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie]'' (1859), Genealogy p. 4</ref>
** Grand Master of the [[Order of Saint Joseph|Order of St. Joseph]]
** Grand Master of the [[Order of Saint Stephen|Military Order of St. Stephen]]
* {{flag|Austrian Empire}}:<ref name = "HofUndStaat2">''Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie'' (1868), Ritter-orden [http://alex.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/alex?aid=shb&datum=1868&size=45&page=184 pp. 40], [http://alex.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/alex?aid=shb&datum=1868&page=187&size=45 43]</ref>
** [[Order of the Golden Fleece|Knight of the Golden Fleece]], ''1810''
** [[Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary|Grand Cross of St. Stephen]], ''1838''<ref>[http://tornai.com/rendtagok.htm "A Szent István Rend tagjai"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222022855/http://tornai.com/rendtagok.htm|date=22 December 2010}}</ref>
* {{flag|Belgium}}: Grand Cordon of the [[Order of Leopold (Belgium)|Order of Leopold]], ''1 October 1844''<ref>{{cite book|title=Almanach royal officiel, publié, exécution d'un arrête du roi|volume=1|author=H. Tarlier|year=1854|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=p35NAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA37 37]|language=fr}}</ref>
* {{flag|Two Sicilies}}:<ref name="Almanacco">{{citation |chapter-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxja24&view=1up&seq=476|chapter=Capitolo XIV: Ordini cavallereschi|date=1829|title=Almanacco Reale del Regno Delle Due Sicilie|access-date=8 October 2020|pages=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxja24&view=1up&seq=480 416], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxja24&view=1up&seq=485 421]|language=it}}</ref>
** [[Order of Saint Januarius|Knight of St. Januarius]]
** [[Order of Saint Ferdinand and of Merit|Grand Cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit]]
* {{Flag|Duchy of Parma}}: [[Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George|Senator Grand Cross of the Constantinian Order of St. George]], with Collar, ''1851''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Almanacco di corte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EqYSAAAAYAAJ&q=Almanacco%20di%20Parma&pg=PA220|date=1858|access-date=2019-04-24|language=it|page=220}}</ref>
* {{flag|Kingdom of Saxony}}: [[Order of the Rue Crown|Knight of the Rue Crown]], ''1817''<ref>{{cite book|title=Staatshandbuch für den Freistaat Sachsen: 1865/66|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBFTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3|year=1866|publisher=Heinrich|page=3}}</ref>

==Ancestry==
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|5= 5. [[Maria Louisa of Spain]]
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|8= 8. [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]
|9= 9. [[Maria Theresa|Maria Theresa of Austria]]
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|11= 11. [[Maria Amalia of Saxony]]
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==See also==
*[[Unification of Italy]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Leopold II. of Habsburg-Lorraine|volume=16|pages=461–462|first=Luigi|last=Villari|author-link=Luigi Villari}}

==External links==
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* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/habsburg/habsburg5.html#L2T A listing of his descendants]

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